I agree this is a problem. In retrospect, reading Yudkowsky's Sequences was far more valuable to me than reading various pre-1900 philosophers' works firsthand.

I agree this is a problem. In retrospect, reading Yudkowsky's Sequences was far more valuable to me than reading various pre-1900 philosophers' works firsthand.

https://twitter.com/PradyuPrasad/status/1757745612072894477

At the end of the day, people like Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander are doing exactly the same kind of work that philosophers were doing in the past.

only difference being that academic papers became the socially “proper” way to share philosophical insight, but philosophical essays were basically blogposts.

Whether they’re equal or superior in quality is an altogether different question, but they’re often dismissed merely based on the form and not the content.